“Jeffries didn’t even whip the vote,” one critic said about the House minority leader, who wants to be speaker. “This is why people want a stronger leader.”
As House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries seeks to become speaker when Democrats retake Congress in January, critics questioned his leadership Tuesday after the Republican-led lower chamber effectively blocked a bid to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth by just seven votes—an outcome that may have been averted if more Democrats showed up to vote.
The 211-204 procedural vote effectively torpedoed Congressman Thomas Massie’s attempt to impeach Hegseth by sending the outgoing Kentucky Republican’s resolution to the House Judiciary Committee, where it will likely gather dust during the remainder of the GOP-controlled congressional term.
11 dem no show, i wonder who side are they even on.
Not present: Nancy Pelosi (Calif.)
Made me laugh. Of course she’s on the list.
I’m very disappointed in my rep, Melanie Stansbury. She won’t get my vote again. I wrote a message to her on the government contact form, saying as much. Fat lot of good that will do.
the new york rep that would have voted no was stuck in traffic, like two other democrats that would’ve voted no??
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/rep-gillen-misses-hegseth-impeachment-150400234.html
They were stuck in traffic having attended an AIPAC linked organizations event.
Get ready for another year of protesting even with dems in Congress.
Dems in Congress only means there’s a chance people will listen as opposed to before when there was no chance.
We are NOT out of the woods yet.
We need new leadership!
Chris Van Hollen is calling his colleagues: https://www.ms.now/news/van-hollen-schumer-senate-majority-leader-democrats
Let’s get the new leadership we so desperately need!
7 calls to help replace Schumer and Jeffries:
- Call Ayanna Pressley and encourage her to run for speaker of the house. She would be a great leader in addition to being the first black speaker of the house - which eliminates Hakeem Jeffries false claim only racists oppose him.
https://pressley.house.gov/contact-us/
- Call Senator Chris Van Hollen and encourage him to run for Senate leader to oust Chuck Schumer.
https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/ Numbers at the bottom of the page
- Call your representative and urge them to support Ayanna Pressley for speaker of the house.
4 & 5) Call your senators and demand they support Chris Van Hollen and oppose Chuck Schumer for Senate leader.
http://5calls.org/issue/house-senate-leadership/
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Call Chuck Schumer and demand he step down as Senate leader: (202) 224-6542
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Call Hakeem Jeffries and demand he step down as house leader: (202) 225-5936
Repeat every day until we have new leaders.
I understand that 10 of the 11 Dem no-shows take money from Israel’s super pac, AIPAC.
I’m happy to be corrected, but that is my understanding.
Follow the money.
They have a new name
Traitors?
United Democracy Project PAC
Which is?
When leadership can’t get everyone on the same page, people start asking serious questions. What do you think this vote says about the party’s direction?
What do you think has changed in the house since the election? You do know none of the winners are sworn until January, right?
The 11 Democratic members of the House who were not present for the procedural vote on the Pete Hegseth impeachment resolution are:
- Julia Brownley (Calif.)
- Lou Correa (Calif.) — note: the report notes he was recovering from a medical procedure and unable to travel
- Laura Gillen (NY)
- Steven Horsford (Nev.)
- Jonathan Jackson (Ill.)
- Nancy Pelosi (Calif.)
- Brittany Pettersen (Colo.)
- Melanie Stansbury (NM)
- Haley Stevens (Mich.)
- Marilyn Strickland (Wash.)
- Frederica Wilson (Fla.)
Fuck haley stevens what a stupid bitch
A part of kegsbreath’s impeachment is he’s working for Israel’s interests rather than the US’, so of course AIPAC goons like Stevens and Pelosi are gonna be absent for his impeachment vote.
Of course it includes Pelosi. Stupid leech.
Wasn’t Jeffries himself also not present?
Majority of dems who didn’t vote, also had funding to their campaigns through aipac. Looking at you Marylin Strickland.
Not only that, they were attending an AIPAC event instead of being there to vote.
Are you fucking kidding me
Some of the 11 Democrats who missedTuesday’s vote to advance the impeachment of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth were reportedly attending an event hosted by a “front group” for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, commonly known as AIPAC.
Israel says Smegmeth stays so he stays. Can’t risk peace breaking out.
Majority who voted probably also had aipac funding.
So where are all the “Fuck people who didn’t vote cause of Gaza!” pieces of shit at?
Probably the same place these fuckers were.
Edit. Come on, there’s got to be more.
This take is just dumb. The impeachment bid was brought to the floor by an exiting Republican. Considering the current makeup of the house, this was never going to pass. It has zero to do with Jeffries.
11 Democrats failed to show up to vote. The vote failed by 7 votes. That’s pretty simple math.
This could have been the end of Hegseth’s political career. Trump doesn’t like it when people close to him get bad press; he usually fires people when public opinion turns against them. And if Republicans are as ready to drop MAGA as the media seem to think, it’s possible that a number of Republican senators would have broken ranks to remove him. (We would be right to assume they wouldn’t vote to remove, but it’s still theoretically possible, and we’ll never truly know if any of them have developed a spine or a moral compass.)
There is zero chance this was going to pass the Senate. I hate performative events. Do something that matters, forget about optics.
They did. Instead of this vote, they went to an AIPAC event. They didn’t care about the optics at all!
Which is meaningless. The only thing that mattered is passing the Senate. The AIPAC event was purely performative.
Jeffires is comprised by both Israel and Trump. Secret meetings with Kushner and sucking Bibi’s dick, swearing off getting justice and calling it revenge. You could fill a book with good reasons why he should not only never have additional power, he should be primaried and replaced asap.
Jeffires is comprised
The word you’re looking for is compromised.
Stupid swipe got me again
It’s fine, y’all relax. Remember we don’t take back Congress until January. Let them start planning now to nail the bastard when there’s zero need for any republikkkan or aipac votes.
Jeffries didn’t even whip the vote. He told people to ‘vote their conscience,’ and 11 members of his caucus didn’t show up,” writer Laura Bassett wrote on social media. “This is why people want a stronger leader.”
Jeffries is a piece of shit and shouldn’t be anywhere near any leadership position…
But whipping votes is the job of the second in line…
A job with the literal title “minority whip”…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Clark
We can’t just focus on two popular names, we need to flush all the neoliberals out of leadership.
All that being said, votes just happen whenever with no warning. It’s way past time that these votes need to be scheduled in advance. Instead of “vote starts now” at least “vote starts in 24 hour, exactly at ____ o’clock”
Once the main vote happens, there can be exceptions for follow ups, like “next vote in one hour”
The current way shit is done is fucking stupid
A job with the literal title “minority whip”…
That is not the official title for that position, though it’s commonly called that. The official title is Assistant Minority Leader, because the person in that position reports to the House Minority Leader. Katherine Clark shares responsibility for this failure, but the buck stops at the top, and that’s Jeffries. It’s literally part of Jeffries’ job to tell the Assistant which votes should get whipped. The Assistant doesn’t typically decide that on their own.
All that being said, votes just happen whenever with no warning. It’s way past time that these votes need to be scheduled in advance. Instead of “vote starts now” at least “vote starts in 24 hour, exactly at ____ o’clock”
Yeah, it’s worth noting because the vote was called right after many Dems left for a break. And then when the call went out for all the Dems to scramble back, many were too far away and couldn’t make it before the vote was held.
Voting by our representatives should take place over the course of a week. They can use web cameras to discuss the topic, a publicly recorded version of Discord, and so on. I want my reps to drink coffee, talk out the issues, and be able to submit their vote without time pressure.
Our systems are rooted in being physically present, yet make mental presence optional.
It’s honestly depressing how little thought people put into this stuff, not every rage addict is a trump supporter these days. Uninformed angry people are all over, and they really want to share opinions
That’s why majority leader is an important position. Because they’re SUPPOSED to keep this kind of childish bullshit from happening. If you elect adults, this doesn’t happen. If you elect children (including those AARP age), you get the level of administration you voted for.
This was great strategy on the part of Massie to support the incoming wave of progressives,
Yep. This is making a great case for replacing current congressional leadership with new blood.
